.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 263 110
Rank change year-on-year -55 -153 +36
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 368 514 1,735
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.20% 2.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.44% 5.38% 11.51%
Number of salaries quoted 337 381 1,673
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,766 9,558 15,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.01% 22.32% 22.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,186 5,974 12,798
10th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,225 £61,000
% change year-on-year -1.85% +8.57% -9.63%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 26 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -54 107 £55,000 +8.08% 15
London -3 98 £80,000 +6.67% 14
North West -21 66 £55,000 - 10
South East -45 54 £60,000 +14.29% 16
Midlands -8 49 £65,000 +23.81% 9
East Midlands -6 39 £65,000 +23.81% 6
South West -1 38 £55,000 -24.14% 8
Yorkshire -65 23 £40,000 -20.00% 5
North East -3 18 £55,000 +22.22% 2
East of England -15 16 £73,750 +47.50% 6
West Midlands -13 10 £45,000 -14.29% 3
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.63%) IIS
2 2 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.27%) Kentico
3 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.27%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 217 (58.97%) Azure
2 84 (22.83%) AWS
3 55 (14.95%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (12.23%) Serverless
5 36 (9.78%) SaaS
6 28 (7.61%) GitHub
7 21 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (4.89%) Azure AKS
8 18 (4.89%) Azure Functions
8 18 (4.89%) Power Platform
9 15 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (3.80%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.80%) AWS Step Functions
11 13 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (3.53%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (2.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.63%) Internet
2 1 (0.27%) AMQP
2 1 (0.27%) HTTP
2 1 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (39.95%) SQL Server
2 31 (8.42%) MongoDB
3 30 (8.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 30 (8.15%) NoSQL
4 24 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (4.08%) Power BI
6 13 (3.53%) DynamoDB
6 13 (3.53%) Relational Database
7 12 (3.26%) MySQL
8 11 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.09%) Redis
10 3 (0.82%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.27%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (13.32%) Git
2 9 (2.45%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.82%) JIRA
5 3 (0.82%) Vite
5 3 (0.82%) webpack
6 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.54%) MSTest
6 2 (0.54%) NUnit
7 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.27%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.27%) GitLab
7 1 (0.27%) Selenium
7 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 45 (12.23%) Finance
2 37 (10.05%) Social Skills
3 17 (4.62%) Law
4 13 (3.53%) Games
4 13 (3.53%) Public Sector
5 10 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.17%) Banking
6 8 (2.17%) Front Office
7 7 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (1.90%) Legal
8 4 (1.09%) Retail
9 3 (0.82%) Advertising
9 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.82%) Marketing
9 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.54%) Back Office
10 2 (0.54%) Local Government
10 2 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.27%) Automotive
11 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 257 (69.84%) Developer
2 126 (34.24%) .NET Developer
3 97 (26.36%) Senior
4 86 (23.37%) Software Developer
5 68 (18.48%) C# Developer
6 60 (16.30%) Senior Developer
7 50 (13.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 49 (13.32%) Software Engineer
9 46 (12.50%) Lead
10 37 (10.05%) C# .NET Developer
11 27 (7.34%) .NET Software Engineer
12 25 (6.79%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 25 (6.79%) Lead Developer
13 24 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
14 23 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
15 21 (5.71%) React Developer
15 21 (5.71%) Senior .NET Developer
16 20 (5.43%) Senior C# Developer
17 19 (5.16%) .NET Software Developer
17 19 (5.16%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (100.00%) .NET
2 124 (33.70%) ASP.NET
3 100 (27.17%) React
4 86 (23.37%) .NET Framework
5 58 (15.76%) AngularJS
6 56 (15.22%) RESTful
7 51 (13.86%) Entity Framework
7 51 (13.86%) HTML
8 48 (13.04%) Blazor
8 48 (13.04%) CSS
9 39 (10.60%) ASP.NET Core
10 35 (9.51%) ASP.NET MVC
11 31 (8.42%) ASP.NET Web API
11 31 (8.42%) Vue
12 27 (7.34%) REST
13 26 (7.07%) Node.js
14 20 (5.43%) HTML5
15 13 (3.53%) AWS CDK
15 13 (3.53%) CSS3
15 13 (3.53%) Dapper ORM
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.88%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (3.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 11 (2.99%) AI Agents
4 11 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.90%) Sports Betting
7 6 (1.63%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.63%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.36%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.09%) Digital TV
9 4 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.09%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.82%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.54%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.54%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.45%) VMS
2 4 (1.09%) Windows
3 3 (0.82%) Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (35.87%) Agile
1 132 (35.87%) Full-Stack Development
2 106 (28.80%) CI/CD
3 104 (28.26%) Software Engineering
4 89 (24.18%) Microservices
5 88 (23.91%) DevOps
6 68 (18.48%) MVC
7 60 (16.30%) Containerisation
8 52 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 46 (12.50%) SDLC
10 41 (11.14%) Clean Code
11 38 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (8.42%) OO
13 30 (8.15%) Collaborative Culture
13 30 (8.15%) Scrum
14 29 (7.88%) Mentoring
15 27 (7.34%) AI
16 26 (7.07%) Analytics
16 26 (7.07%) Infrastructure as Code
17 24 (6.52%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 315 (85.60%) C#
2 147 (39.95%) SQL
3 111 (30.16%) JavaScript
4 50 (13.59%) TypeScript
5 23 (6.25%) Python
6 15 (4.08%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (2.45%) Rust
8 8 (2.17%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.09%) Bash
9 4 (1.09%) Bicep
10 3 (0.82%) Erlang
10 3 (0.82%) Java
10 3 (0.82%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.27%) C++
11 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (8.15%) Degree
2 14 (3.80%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.99%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.99%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.45%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.36%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.36%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.08%) QA
2 4 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.09%) WCAG
3 2 (0.54%) SLA
4 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.27%) ITGC
System Software
1 83 (22.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (16.30%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.15%) Terraform
3 2 (0.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 100 (27.17%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.36%) Google
3 3 (0.82%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (0.82%) Facebook
3 3 (0.82%) YouTube
4 2 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (0.54%) Databricks
4 2 (0.54%) Foundry
4 2 (0.54%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.27%) IBM
5 1 (0.27%) Okta
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle
5 1 (0.27%) Salesforce